A speck, a tiny point of light in an endless blanket of darkness, moving at a galactic snail’s pace - but at speeds humanity never before achieved. DSV Tellus, Deep Space Ventures’s first manned spacecraft destined for the asteroid belt, uses a hybrid mass driver engine to accelerate to over one half of a billion kilometers per hour.

Commander Isabelle Lyle’s crew is in for more than just a simple mining survey mission, however. Somewhere between their position in the cold of space, and the dwarf planet Ceres, their destination, an unknown threat waits.

Their mission could be the turning point for mankind - one of the greatest moments in all of history - or a tragedy for all involved.

"Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress"
Is the world really falling apart? Is the ideal of progress obsolete? Cognitive scientist and public intellectual Steven Pinker urges us to step back from the gory headlines and prophecies of doom, and instead, follow the data: In seventy-five jaw-dropping graphs, Pinker shows that life, health, prosperity, safety, peace, knowledge, and happiness are on the rise. Learn more

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